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Atisha
A biography of the renowned Buddhist sage
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Translated by Thubten Kelsang Rinpoche and Ngodrub
Paljor, with John Blofeld. First published by the Social
Science Association Press of Thailand, Bangkok, in 1974.
Reprinted by Mahayana Publications, Tushita Mahayana
Meditation Centre, New Delhi, 1983, 1984. ISBN 0 86171
015 0.
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Contents
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Notes
- Offerings to give thanks for the Prince's birth.
- This paragraph, the first part of which is addressed directly
to Atisha, forms the writer's conclusion to the first part
of the story.
- From this point onwards, the story continues in the first
person with Atisha as the narrator.
- Atisha was not boasting. Having by tantric means taken
on the form of the terrible, he had become the divinity!
- Twenty-one forms of the goddess Tara.
- Atisha's chief disciple.
- Atisha
- Another of Atisha's names.
- A nephew of Lha Lama.
- A Tibetan living in India.
- A fabulous mountain region, the chief peak of which is
said to be 15,990 feet.
- Elders who severally preached Buddhist doctrine in the
various islands and continents of the Buddhist cosmogony.
- The day of removing faults by making confession to a monk.
- An offering to quench the thirst of pretas.
- Serpent-gods who live under the ground.
- Great Compassion, another name for the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara.
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